Listen to “The Butcher”, a new song from Seattle super group Walking Papers

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As famed as Seattle’s music scene is, the city still manages to house performers who remain largely local favorites. Take The Missionary Position and its founders, singer/guitarist Jeff Angell and keyboardist Ben Anderson. Angell has been on the scene since 2002 with his band Post Stardom Depression; as The Missionary Position, he and Anderson have been wowing crowds for the last five years; and now they’re together again in an Emerald City supergroup, Walking Papers.

But while these names may not be familiar to many readers (yet), the other members of Walking Papers certainly are. When The Missionary Position opened for Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin’s band The Barrett Martin Project in 2012, Angell and Martin hit it off, and a musical partnership was born. Looking to take their collaboration “to the next level”, the pair turned to another longtime fan of Angell: Seattle resident and former member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, Duff McKagan.

“I hoped at some point I would do something with Jeff,” McKagan recently told Rolling Stone. “Early on, when we were looking for singers for Velvet Revolver, I brought Jeff Angell down, about 2003. I’ve had a relationship with him and wanted to work with him for that long.”

Yet despite the alt-rock, grunge, and hard-rock background of the band’s more renowned members, the band’s self-titled debut comes a bit out of left field. Mixed by Jack Endino (Soundgarden, Nirvana), with contributions from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, the album spans genres from psych-pop to spaghetti western to blues.

Just take a listen to “The Butcher”, a minor-keyed murder ballad that has Angell’s voice rising through the dusk with killer lines like, “Seems he and the butcher knife went dancing/must have been cheek to cheek.” While the track is just one example of the musical stones the album steps on, it’s one that sends tantalizing chills right up the spine.

Walk Papers arrives August 6th via Loud & Proud.

Walking Papers will be on the road as part of the touring UPROAR festival, alongside acts like Alice in Chains, Jane’s Addiction, and Coheed and Cambria. Consult the full schedule below.